With Facebook’s share price at about half of what its IPO launched for, and many industry analysts negative on the prospects of that massive social network to generate any significant growth in the near future, Mark Zuckerberg is trying to turn that around. Something that Facebook has been talking about for some time now is adding a real money gambling option for Facebook users in nations where online gambling is legal. That has now become a reality for the first time, as Facebook users in the UK can now play bingo and slots for cold, hard cash.

April 15, 2011 is not a date that the owners and players of Full Tilt Poker look upon with fond memories. That is the day that the United States Department of Justice shut them down with no warning, all sorts of federal charges of illegalities followed, and the site has still not yet paid back many account holders who had substantial amounts of money in their accounts when the site was shut down. However, by that time next year, Full Tilt Poker could be back in action in the United States and going stronger than ever, although maybe under a different name.

In our many years of research (and playing) in online casinos, sportsbooks, poker rooms and bingo halls we have seen all types of promotions, welcome bonuses and new games come and go. And it seems like most online casinos must hire teams of lawyers to make the promotional bonus wording so incredibly difficult to understand and qualify for that it gives you a headache. Well, at least one respected casino giant with almost 20 years in the business has decided to change all that.

With hundreds of online casinos, sportsbooks, poker rooms and bingo halls to choose from, the online gamer has an important decision to make. They can either choose to spend hundreds if not thousands of hours scouring the web and checking out the individual offerings presented by each prospective casino, or they can find a trusted casino review site that consistently posts news on upcoming promotions, welcome bonuses and new games.

If you play online games on social networking web sites like Facebook, you probably know who Zynga is. If so, there is a good chance you already play a free online poker game run by the social gaming giant. Gardening and farming games like Farmville were previously all the rage on Facebook and at other social networking sites. However, late last year poker and casino games overtook farm-based interactive social gaming as the number one preferred activity of people who play some type of game on a social network.